Random Developments

I wonder if I’m the only person who was disappointed by the new Google Desktop Search that was unveiled yesterday…

The basic idea is great: a desktop mini-application that will allow you to search your own local data with the same completeness we all came to expect from Google. The initial description of the tool is great, as well: search documents, IM chats, e-mails, and even web pages you have visited, even if they’ve changed since then.

The implementation, though, still leaves something to be desired: it will only search pages visited with Internet Explorer (come on, even CERT is telling people not to use IE), e-mails received with Outlook, IM chats on AIM, and MS Office documents (granted, it will search images and plain-text documents as well). And, obviously, it only works on Windows.

Ok, that will be enough for the vast majority of computer users out there. But not for most geeks. I expected more from Google… (well, it’s still beta, and they say they’re “considering” supporting Firefox more thoroughly, so there’s still hope).

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